[eric] chat: unify thinking labels into one shared list, add quirkier verbs

frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/AgentChat.tsx

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ import { createSessionWs, acquireSessionWs, releaseSessionWs } from '@/shared/ws
 import StreamingBubble from './bubbles/StreamingBubble';
 import WelcomeQuickReplies from './WelcomeQuickReplies';
 import { useWelcomeGreeting } from './useWelcomeGreeting';
+import { THINKING_LABELS } from './thinkingLabels';
 import MessageBubble from './bubbles/MessageBubble';
 import { estimateRenderedTextHeight, RECHECK_VISIBILITY_EVENT } from './bubbles/markdownMeasure';
 import CompactionMarker from './bubbles/CompactionMarker';
@@ -166,22 +167,15 @@ const thinkingShimmerKeyframes = `
 }
 `;
 
-// Single-word labels picked deterministically per session-turn so the pill
-// has variety without flickering between renders. Mirrors MessageBubble's list.
-const STREAMING_LABELS: ReadonlyArray<string> = [
-  'Thinking', 'Pondering', 'Cooking', 'Marinating', 'Deliberating',
-  'Reasoning', 'Reflecting', 'Untangling', 'Stewing', 'Locking-in',
-  'Considering', 'Processing', 'Vibing', 'Calculating', 'Chefing',
-  'Geeking', 'Brewing',
-];
-
+// Pick a label deterministically per session-turn so the pill has variety
+// without flickering between renders. Shared list with MessageBubble.
 function streamingLabelFor(seedKey: string | undefined): string {
-  if (!seedKey) return STREAMING_LABELS[0];
+  if (!seedKey) return THINKING_LABELS[0].live;
   let h = 0;
   for (let i = 0; i < seedKey.length; i++) {
     h = ((h << 5) - h + seedKey.charCodeAt(i)) | 0;
   }
-  return STREAMING_LABELS[Math.abs(h) % STREAMING_LABELS.length];
+  return THINKING_LABELS[Math.abs(h) % THINKING_LABELS.length].live;
 }
 
 const ThinkingBubble: React.FC<{ label?: string | null; seedKey?: string }> = ({ label, seedKey }) => {

frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/bubbles/MessageBubble.tsx

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
 import remarkGfm from 'remark-gfm';
 import WindowedMarkdown from './WindowedMarkdown';
 import { estimateRenderedTextHeight, oversizedCharThreshold, RECHECK_VISIBILITY_EVENT } from './markdownMeasure';
+import { THINKING_LABELS } from '../thinkingLabels';
 import { AgentMessage } from '@/shared/state/agentsSlice';
 import { openSettingsModal } from '@/shared/state/settingsSlice';
 import { shallowEqual } from 'react-redux';
@@ -559,26 +560,6 @@ const MessageImageThumbnails: React.FC<{
   );
 };
 
-const THINKING_LABELS: ReadonlyArray<{ live: string; past: string }> = [
-  { live: 'Thinking',     past: 'Thought' },
-  { live: 'Pondering',    past: 'Pondered' },
-  { live: 'Cooking',      past: 'Cooked' },
-  { live: 'Marinating',   past: 'Marinated' },
-  { live: 'Deliberating', past: 'Deliberated' },
-  { live: 'Reasoning',    past: 'Reasoned' },
-  { live: 'Reflecting',   past: 'Reflected' },
-  { live: 'Untangling',   past: 'Untangled' },
-  { live: 'Stewing',      past: 'Stewed' },
-  { live: 'Locking-in',   past: 'Locked-in' },
-  { live: 'Considering',  past: 'Considered' },
-  { live: 'Processing',   past: 'Processed' },
-  { live: 'Vibing',       past: 'Vibed' },
-  { live: 'Calculating',  past: 'Calculated' },
-  { live: 'Chefing',      past: 'Chefed' },
-  { live: 'Geeking',      past: 'Geeked' },
-  { live: 'Brewing',      past: 'Brewed' },
-];
-
 /** Stable hash of message id to label index; reload, scroll-back, and resume keep the same label. */
 function labelIndexFromId(id: string | undefined): number {
   if (!id) return 0;

frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/thinkingLabels.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+// One source of truth for the agent's whimsical "busy" verbs, shared by the
+// streaming pill (AgentChat) and the per-message thinking bubble (MessageBubble).
+// `live` shows while the agent works; `past` shows once the step is done
+// ("Marinated for 3s"). Keep them fun but never self-deprecating (no
+// "hallucinating") so they read as personality, not a malfunction.
+export interface ThinkingLabel {
+  live: string;
+  past: string;
+}
+
+// Index 0 is the safe default the pill falls back to with no seed, so keep it
+// the plain one. Everything after is fair game for chaos.
+export const THINKING_LABELS: ReadonlyArray<ThinkingLabel> = [
+  { live: 'Thinking',       past: 'Thought' },
+  { live: 'Tokenmaxing',    past: 'Tokenmaxed' },
+  { live: 'Pondering',      past: 'Pondered' },
+  { live: 'Cooking',        past: 'Cooked' },
+  { live: 'Grokking',       past: 'Grokked' },
+  { live: 'Marinating',     past: 'Marinated' },
+  { live: 'Galaxy-braining', past: 'Galaxy-brained' },
+  { live: 'Reasoning',      past: 'Reasoned' },
+  { live: 'Noodling',       past: 'Noodled' },
+  { live: 'Percolating',    past: 'Percolated' },
+  { live: 'Reflecting',     past: 'Reflected' },
+  { live: 'Untangling',     past: 'Untangled' },
+  { live: 'Crunching',      past: 'Crunched' },
+  { live: 'Stewing',        past: 'Stewed' },
+  { live: 'Locking-in',     past: 'Locked-in' },
+  { live: 'Manifesting',    past: 'Manifested' },
+  { live: 'Big-braining',   past: 'Big-brained' },
+  { live: 'Vibing',         past: 'Vibed' },
+  { live: 'Scheming',       past: 'Schemed' },
+  { live: 'Riffing',        past: 'Riffed' },
+  { live: 'Calculating',    past: 'Calculated' },
+  { live: 'Tinkering',      past: 'Tinkered' },
+  { live: 'Finessing',      past: 'Finessed' },
+  { live: 'Chefing',        past: 'Chefed' },
+  { live: 'Min-maxing',     past: 'Min-maxed' },
+  { live: 'Geeking',        past: 'Geeked' },
+  { live: 'Ruminating',     past: 'Ruminated' },
+  { live: 'Simmering',      past: 'Simmered' },
+  { live: 'Brewing',        past: 'Brewed' },
+  { live: 'Wrangling',      past: 'Wrangled' },
+  { live: 'Spelunking',     past: 'Spelunked' },
+  { live: 'Conjuring',      past: 'Conjured' },
+  { live: 'Synthesizing',   past: 'Synthesized' },
+  { live: 'Overclocking',   past: 'Overclocked' },
+  { live: 'Caffeinating',   past: 'Caffeinated' },
+  { live: 'Sleuthing',      past: 'Sleuthed' },
+  { live: 'Larping',        past: 'Larped' },
+  { live: 'Speedrunning',   past: 'Speedran' },
+  { live: 'Theorycrafting', past: 'Theorycrafted' },
+  { live: 'Sussing',        past: 'Sussed' },
+  { live: 'Hyperfixating',  past: 'Hyperfixated' },
+  { live: 'Nerd-sniping',   past: 'Nerd-sniped' },
+  { live: 'Promptmaxing',   past: 'Promptmaxed' },
+  { live: 'Pontificating',  past: 'Pontificated' },
+  { live: 'Vibe-checking',  past: 'Vibe-checked' },
+  { live: 'Mogging',        past: 'Mogged' },
+  { live: 'Goblin-moding',  past: 'Goblin-moded' },
+  { live: 'Side-questing',  past: 'Side-quested' },
+  { live: 'Tryharding',     past: 'Tryharded' },
+  { live: 'Grinding',       past: 'Grinded' },
+];